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Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by programnature »

This is the kind of thing they need to get into. Data that lots of people care about, data for the masses, rather than obscure details on bolt sizes or ancient currencies. "Compute things people want".

I could only imagine what they could do with celebrity gossip. Or product comparisons.

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by carlob »

stevencorona wrote: post #12

related: anyone know any good platforms for collecting personal data so you can make cool graphs like this? i use google spreadsheet right now, but im not a fan.

Have you tried Wolfram|Alpha Pro data input features themselves for the analysis?

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by spitfire »

programnature wrote: post #13

This is the kind of thing they need to get into. Data that lots of people care about, data for the masses, rather than obscure details on bolt sizes or ancient currencies. "Compute things people want". I could only imagine what they could do with celebrity gossip. Or product comparisons.

I am genuinely surprised we have not seen any "big data" articles about celebrity gossip rags. That has to be a market you could data-mine the crap out of for fun and profit.

I can imagine split testing Tom Cruise vs George Clooney to see who generates more revenue.

You could call it quantitative gossip.

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by ninetax »

Do you know that feeling when a project/idea you have been working on a long time gets implemented almost exactly as you imagined it, only by someone else?

Well I do now. I'm not sure if I should be excited, or listen to the sick feeling in my stomach.

Edit: Thanks for the positive support! I'll keep working on the project.

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by zoba »

It seems concerning that my personal information can be so easily summed up and displayed in easily digestible format. I'm not sure if you can view other people's Wolfram Alpha Facebook summaries, or what data they could be collecting about me... However, here is one study that demonstrates that your sexual orientation can be determined just by analyzing your Facebook friends.

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ar...

Re: Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

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Post by togasystems »

ecmendenhall wrote: post #4

Here's the direct link to try it out: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=facebook+report As someone with a long history of incomplete self-tracking projects, this kind of automated collection and analysis is great. (If only I could get the rest of my data in the same place!) What I'd really like to see is a tool like IFTTT for self-trackers.

Can you name some self-trackers that you use?
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